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Sixty years ago ~ on this day September 12, 1953, Congresssman John Fitzgerald Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at a ceremony held in St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island. We visited St. Mary’s Church last year, walked through the garden and the church interior. It’s a beautiful, traditional Catholic Church. For that Lowell…
Read More »This is the seventh in a series of posts showing some historical data from the 2011 city election. Each post shows how one candidate on the ballot in the 2013 city election performed in the 2011 election. Here is ninth place finisher Joe Mendonca. The information presented below is organized…
Read More »This is the sixth in a series of posts showing some historical data from the 2011 city election. Each post shows how one candidate on the ballot in the 2013 city election performed in the 2011 election. Here is eighth place finisher Edward Kennedy. The information presented below is organized…
Read More »‘Middlesex & Wood Streets” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 [drawing, 2005] See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Four of the city of Lowell’s polling places have changed locations in time for the September 24, 2013 preliminary election. All three precincts in Ward 2 which formerly voted at the Masonic Temple on Arcand Drive will now vote at the Tsongas Center (f/k/a Tsongas Arena) on Martin Luther King…
Read More »From the archive: After serving for 35 years as a Member of Congress representing the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District, Edith Nourse Rogers died on this day September 10, 1960 – in the midst of her nineteenth Congressional campaign, three days before the primary. Mrs. Rogers – at the urging of…
Read More »The Fall 2013 tours of historic Lowell Cemetery are fast approaching. Here are the dates: Friday, September 27 at 1 pm Saturday, September 28 at 10 am Friday, October 4 at 1 pm Saturday, October 5 at 10 am The tours begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance to the cemetery…
Read More »This is a cross-post from our friend Dave McKean over at LowellIrish. Dave and other St. Patrick Cemetery stewards are cleaning up and documenting important and historic slate grave stones and markers. (Also cross-posted on the Lowell Historical Society site.) A WORD OF THANKS The slate stones in Yard One…
Read More »In the informational packet for this week’s Lowell City Council meeting, the following item caught my eye. It’s a response from the city manager to a motion made by Mayor Murphy at the August 27, 2013 city council meeting that requested a report on “the use of CDBG funding for…
Read More »The following is a list of motions on the agenda for this week’s Lowell City Council meeting. The number that precedes the motion is the item number on the agenda (as is evident, there is much on the agenda before council motions are even reached which is a fairly recent…
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